Toys R Us Reboot San Marcos March 2025

Now let's check out the most recent Toys R Us store reboot. We visited this store in March 2025. The store opened on November 2, 2024, and is listed at about 8,000 square feet of retail space. 

Here is the store website if you would like to check out more about the store. 

The store is located at a prime spot at the Northeast corner of the Tanger Outlets facing the main road and the Premium Outlets just across the road. 

The front of the store has a lot of decorations to draw attention to the store.

A cool storyboard showing a brief history of Geoffrey and the history of Toys R Us.

Now for the store. Just to be clear, there was a decent amount of customer activity within the store, but I used AI to edit out any people that were in my photos. 

Photo OP!

An even better photo OP!

Checkout line entrance.

The dinosaur in the top left-hand corner moves and opens its mouth.

The selection of toys is a lot better than you will find at the Macy's Toys R Us locations. 

There is a massive board and card game selection. 

I haven't played a board game or card game in years, but I was tempted to purchase one here.

Preschool and infant toys.

Sports and outdoor toys.

Girl's toys and books.

Collectible action figures. Some of these were popular when I was a kid back in the 80's.

Some of the larger toys that the smaller Macy's locations don't have are here.

Lots of Legos here too. More than I have pictured.

One last look at the front of the store. 

Here are my thoughts about the store. They have a really good mix of products for the store size. Just about every well-known brand of toys is covered. The store is well-stocked and clean. There is a much better variety of products than the first reboot of the stores we saw in 2019. There is a minimal number of electronic toys which is a good thing to see in 2025 and more of a return to what made Toys R Us a great place for kids. While the 2019 reboot had some good ideas (linked here), the product selection was not anywhere close to what is available here. I hope we see more of these stores in the future. This store reminds me a lot of the Toys R Us express stores, but with a much cleaner store than we were used to. 

Happy New Year 2023! From the archives: Toys R Us Webster Texas June 2, 2018 store closing sale

Happy New Year everybody. I hope 2023 brings good health, prosperity, and peace for each and every one of my blog readers. 

 Here is a post to start off the new year from my archives. This late 1990's era remodel was a very awesome look, it is sad that only two Houston area stores received this remodel. If you drive by today, sadly the building is now an unrecognizable Burlington. The other 2 TRU stores that I know had this same remodel were Sugarland Texas and Metairie Louisiana. The look of this store reminds me a bit of the old Katy Mills Mall with the late 1990's big and bold color schemes. While this store model is gone, Toys R Us lives on inside of Macy's locations. 

If you want to see an example of a Macy's Toys R Us in 2022, click here.

The foyer area. Pure 1990's awesomeness!

As for the inside of the store there was a refresh at some point after the 1990's era remodel. With the exception of the flooring and large light fixtures, most of the 1990's era remodel is gone on the inside.

The tiles are the same from the remodel, but the colors inside are plain.

A few toys that caught my eye, giant magic 8-ball.

A TRU exclusive Loaded Lemons.

Babies R Us

From this point of view, this store looks just like any late era TRU store.

The back corner of the store in the Babies R Us department.

This late era TRU logo never really seemed to capture the magic of the TRU experience. Removing Geoffrey from the signage was a bad move IMO.

A look through the shelving and into the back room of the Babies R Us side of the store.

The large light fixtures in the front of the store were a part of the 1990's era remodel.

Bike department was pretty well picked through at this point.

The floor still has the shape of the 1990's era remodel. The center of the store was an over with low shelves to see all the way across the store. At some point these were removed in favor of the high shelves that every other TRU store had. 

An unbelievable amount of the 250ct. NERF bullets. Imagine the mess this would make in a tournament.

The collectibles area facing the electronics counter.

I remember these bouncy platforms; they were a broken arm or leg waiting to happen.

More empty shelves.

The front of the store.

The collectors area had these bulky signs.

More of the front of the store. 

A neat walk through in the collectors area.

Now for my favorite department, video games.

A left-over advertisement for the Nintendo Switch.

More views of the checkouts from the electronics counter.

A late-era TRU attempt at capturing sales from the drone craze. Thankfully the quality of drones has gotten so much better than what they had to offer in 2018.

A wide-view of the electronics department from the checkout area.

A store-closing advertisement.

More views from the front of the store near the checkouts.

Toys R Us branded batteries.

A really nice-looking view of the store closing sale flyer.